Container with ELEVEN MILLION cigarettes washes up on Devon coast…
A huge shipping container with as many as 11 million cigarettes inside has washed up on the Lyme Bay coast this morning – but police are warning any wreckers ‘looking for free fags’ to stay well away.
Officers have cordoned off the beach near Beer, Devon, where the 40ft long Maersk shipping container was floating in shallow water, and could be left aground in the high tide this lunchtime.
It contains 14 tonnes of cigarettes and the container was one of a reported 517 to be washed off a cargo…